Beside you in time :
sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century /
Elizabeth Freeman.

Description

Main Author

Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Language(s)

English

Published

©2019
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Subjects

Time > Time / Social aspects.
Time perception in literature.
Queer theory.
Literature and society.
Human body in literature.
Homosexuality > Homosexuality / Social aspects.
American literature > American literature / African American authors.
Queer theory.
Literature and society > Literature and society / United States > Literature and society / United States / History > Literature and society / United States / History / 19th century.
American literature > American literature / African American authors > American literature / African American authors / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004342 / 19th century > American literature / African American authors / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004342 / 19th century / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 / History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Time perception in literature.
Homosexuality > Homosexuality / Social aspects > Homosexuality / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126499 / United States > Homosexuality / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126499 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History > Homosexuality / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126499 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History / 19th century.
Time > Time / Social aspects > Time / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112899 / United States > Time / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112899 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History > Time / Social aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112899 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History / 19th century.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Summary

Expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes--religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality--and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.

Physical Description

xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN

1478005041
9781478005049
1478006358
9781478006350

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